May 25th 2007
By: Russ
Details here. We're told:
"The new Audiovisual Media Services without frontiers Directive, now agreed by Parliament and Council, will allow the audiovisual sector confront the profound changes it faces to accommodate technological and market developments, and changing viewing habits resulting from convergence. The Directive ensures that the modernised rules cover ...
May 24th 2007
By: Russ
Ofcom today issued the results of its inquiry into whether Channel 4 breached the Broadcast Code with respect to the Celebrity Big Brother / Shilpa Shetty matter. (We heart Shilpa here at OfcomWatch)
The full document is here. [70-page .pdf]
Basically, the outcome is that Ofcom found Channel 4 in breach ...
May 24th 2007
By: Luke
Ofcom today published its Adjudication on Channel Four's broadcast of Celebrity Big Brother 2007.
Ofcom's investigation found that Channel Four made serious editorial misjudgements, compounded by a serious failure of its compliance process. Ofcom has therefore found Channel Four in breach of the Broadcasting Code and has imposed ...
May 23rd 2007
By: Russ
Check out ITsafe -- a government funded website that -- according to its homepage provides 'home users and small businesses with warnings and news about computer security problems. ITsafe is a free UK government service.'
I've previously pointed out how lame this nameless and faceless site looks. It probably also ...
May 21st 2007
By: Russ
Someone sent OfcomWatch a very funny email this morning concerning Ofcom's recent Broadcast Bulletin [85-page .pdf]. They write in part:
'There is a Swedish language programme on UK Satellite TV which can't be viewed by many people. (Less than 10k???) Prior to the recent general election, it broadcasted a programme ...
May 18th 2007
By: Russ
Howdy folks, here is what's knocking about lately:
* I spent most of the week in London meeting people for my PhD research on Ofcom. After having met about 30 people so far one thing really surfaces: Other than to report that people generally give Ofcom credit for ...
May 13th 2007
By: Russ
I've always admired the work of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Their research is usually excellent and made readily available to the public. Anyway, they have something new on their website -- slightly silly -- but still nevertheless interesting. It's called the Typology of ...
May 11th 2007
By: Russ
BBC News reports:
"A British climber is in the closing stages of an attempt to set a world record for the highest mobile call.
Rod Baber is making final preparations to scale Mount Everest and make the call from its north ridge.
Following weeks of acclimatisation, Mr Baber is now at base camp ...
May 11th 2007
By: Russ
Another week down the drain:
* First, a very special note from your friends at OfcomWatch: It's been four years since we started this little website. Wanna see what it was like at the very beginning courtesy of the internet archive? Click here. Actually, we really started the idea of OfcomWatch ...
May 10th 2007
By: Russ
The MediaGuardian this morning* continues its coverage of the Sky / Virgin Media dispute in light of Virgin Media's dismal 1Q07 results. Richard Wray writes:
Virgin Media lost nearly 47,000 customers in the first three months of this year and warned yesterday that more were likely to follow after the ...
